Category: Crime and Judiciary

Police in Australia seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine and arrested 13 people in raids after the suspects’ boat broke down off the coast of Queensland, authorities said Monday.The drugs had a sale value of 760 million Australian dollars ($494 million) and equaled as many as 11.7 million street deals if they had reached the country of 28 million...

The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported the country’s rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison Sunday after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime.Salehi had been sentenced to death in April by a revolutionary court on charges linked to unrest in the country from 2022 to 2023, although Iran’s Supreme Court overturned that sentence in June.His songs...

Police in Georgia arrested a prominent opposition leader early Monday after using water cannon and tear gas to scatter anti-government protesters who rallied outside Parliament for the fourth straight night.The protests were set off by the government’s announcement last week that it was suspending talks on joining the European Union. Critics saw that as confirmation of a Russian-influenced shift away...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced the arrest of one Ezeokoli Sylva, a businessman based in Brazil, for allegedly smuggling 700 grams of cocaine.A body scan revealed foreign objects in his stomach, prompting authorities to place him under excretion observation. He later expelled 29 wraps of cocaine, which tested positive for the...

In a mop up exercise operation to end the activities of drug peddling, Nigerian Taskforce invaded 31 Rd and the adjoining streets of Wole Omo Osho, Bless Jah, Adenle Crescent and Okunola Rd in Mosan-Okunola LCDA in Alimosho LGA.The operation started around 6p.m on Thursday 28th November, 2024, leading to the arrest of 43 suspected...

Nigerian Investigative Journalist, Feyisayo Soyombo who was arrested and detained by the Nigerian Army ‘in linkage with oil bunkering in Port Harcourt,’ has regained freedom.Recall Soyombo was allegedly arrested over his investigation into the Nigerian Customs activities at the Border where he exposed a syndicate that illegally moved 130,000 bags of rice into country from...

Authorities reported that a West Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a person on Friday who fired at him as he was responding to a 911 call.The individual who died wasn’t immediately identified by the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office, which released a statement about the shooting on Facebook. It said officials were notifying next of...

The Nigerian Army in a statement on its X account has announced that it arrested and detained Fisayo Soyombo an investigative journalist in linkage with oil bunkering in Port Harcourt as against the narrative circulating online.The Nigerian Journalist has been in the custody of the Nigerian Army Headquarters, 6 Division, Port Harcourt since on Tuesday...

James Craig, a dentist accused of killing his wife by poisoning her protein shakes has been charged with trying to get a fellow jail inmate to kill a detective investigating the murder case.Prosecutors filed two new charges against Craig last week — solicitation to commit murder as well as solicitation to commit perjury.The charging document does not...